Publication

1998 - Scribner Paperback Fiction, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

127,000 words, Guess

Page Count

508 pages

Identifiers

and 8 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR9199.3.M2985
  • LCCPR9199.3.M2985 F35 1997

Description

The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.

First Sentence

A LONG TIME AGO, BEFORE you were born, there lived a family called Piper on Cape Breton Island.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

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